Witchcraft, magic, and culture, 1736-1951 - Info and Reading Options
By Owen Davies
"Witchcraft, magic, and culture, 1736-1951" was published by Manchester University Press in 1999 - Manchester, UK, it has 337 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Witchcraft, magic, and culture, 1736-1951” Metadata:
- Title: ➤ Witchcraft, magic, and culture, 1736-1951
- Author: Owen Davies
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 337
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publish Date: 1999
- Publish Location: Manchester, UK
“Witchcraft, magic, and culture, 1736-1951” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ History - Magic - Witchcraft - Occultism - Cults - Magic, history
- Places: Great Britain
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: xiii, 337 p. ;
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL121520M - OL919209W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 41338629
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 99488078
- ISBN-10: 0719056551 - 071905656X
- All ISBNs: 0719056551 - 071905656X
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"Witchcraft, magic, and culture, 1736-1951" Table Of Contents:
- 1- Machine generated contents note: 1 EDUCATED ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE POPULAR BELIEF IN WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC
- 2- The denial of witchcraft and the defence of property 2
- 3- Witchcraft: an anachronism in the 'Age of Enlightenment' 7
- 4- Continuing religious interest in witchcraft
- 5- Possession, religion and spiritualism 18
- 6- Witchcraft and insanity 39
- 7- Reforming the popular mind 44
- 8- The legal debate over the Witchcraft and Vagrancy Acts 6i 2 WITCHCRAFT AND POPULAR JUSTICE 79
- 9- The decline of witchcraft prosecutions 79
- 10- Authority's role in the persecution and prosecution of witches 83
- 11- Swimming: the popular adoption of a continental practice 86
- 12- The continued resort to figures of authority and their response ioo
- 13- Witch-mobbing as an act offolk justice Io6
- 14- Witch-mobbing, the parish constable and the coming of the
- 15- new police Iog
- 16- 3 WITCHCRAFT, MAGIC AND POPULAR LITERATURE 120
- 17- Literacy and literature 121
- 18- Broadsides 124
- 19- Chapbooks 130
- 20- Prophecy 142
- 21- The witch and the Devil 147
- 22- Almanacs I53
- 23- Anti-superstition literature I57
- 24- 4 THE WITCH 167
- 25- Witches,folklore and belief I68
- 26- Characteristics of the archetypal witch 174
- 27- Fairies, flying and shape-shifting 184
- 28- The witch in court I93
- 29- Origins of accusations 201
- 30- Bewitchment and social space 207
- 31- 5 OCCULT PRACTITIONERS 214
- 32- Cunning-folk 214
- 33- Astrologers 229
- 34- Astrologers of London 236
- 35- Fortune-tellers 246
- 36- The reinvention offortune-telling 250
- 37- Gypsies 258
- 38- Fortune-telling and the First World War 266
- 39- 6 DECLINING BELIEF IN WITCHCRAFT 27I
- 40- Measuring declining belief 272
- 41- Cultural change and the retiring witch 278
- 42- CONCLUSION 294.
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